A position with a consulting engineering firm is not the same as a job with the Fortune 500 -- and it is no surprise that otherwise unemployable older engineers are ending up in consulting engineering firms that may service the Fortune 500. It is an obvious market niche and it is good to hear it is providing some relief but the economic rent seekers gravitate to ensconced positions -- full benefits, etc -- in the Fortune 500 which have the resources to pursue public sector rent seeking as well as private sector rent seeking. One acquaintance of mine from the PLATO days was with the Open Source Development Labs and doing consulting, recently died due to no health insurance.
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am an engineering manager in the consulting engineer business. I do > run across cultural nepotism occasionally; but, right now, there is a > shortage of good engineering talent. > > In my business, money is rarely the issue . . . it is expertise. I > have two large engineering firms to draw from, AECOM in the US and > Atkins in GB fortunately. > > In our local group, most of the engineers are around 60 years old. > Most of us are systems engineers with communications and > transportation experience. We are presently taking in kids right out > of school and training them; but, people who have a good work ethic > are getting hard to find. There seems to be a prevaling sense of > entitlement in this generation. > >
